San Francisco may ban circumcision

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http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/politics/Next-on-San-Franciscos-Hit-List-Circumcision-107316878.html?__source=Facebook

Good idea? I say go for it. Other cities should follow suit.

So choice is not a progressive value unless you are killing a fetus?

medical procedures? How about a fine or imprisonment for an abortion? Slippery slope and most likely unconstitutional.

while they ignore real news.

and a California state Constitutional challenge.

Specifically the clauses on religious freedom.

To Jews and Muslims, circumcision (a bris) is a tenet of their faith and passing a law forbidding this practice is a clear violation of the US 1st amendment as well as Article 1 Sec. 4 of the California Constitution.

nt

Reduces penal yeast infections. I'm sure you don't want to see the pictures . . .

that "San Francisco May Ban Circumcision". I just wonder if journalism has always been this sloppy and irresponsible -or if it's always been like this.

phenom, IMHO--if the last 15 years counts as recent.

..... may ban circumcision? Geez, and people say the media has no credibility.

will still be flying fast and furious in this thread.

nt

as i say, not just on politics... they gotta find news, anything salacious. it is really fuckin with our minds, i think

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4611604

The thread is still open so feel free to respond and kick it.

First Happy Meals. Now this.

No doubt, some will wonder, what next? Are they going to try to pass laws against parents sending their children to Sunday School or Catechism Class or Hebrew School because they consider this subjecting children to forced religious indoctrination?

Actually it is measures like this or attempts at authoritarian nanny state measures like this that completely culturally alienate liberals and progressives from ordinary working-class Americans and make the Teabaggers look more like the mainstream.

Besides, there is a sizable Jewish community AND a sizable Muslim community in San Francisco. Obviously this will not fly with either of these two groups. Perhaps this is one issue where both religious communities might feel that their religious practice is under siege and there is at least one issue where they can unite

But aside from the religious angle and regardless what people may personally think about circumcision, such legislation is going to strike mainstream Americans across the political spectrum as out-of-touch authoritarian-nanny-state PC and once again give the left a bad name.

Those who oppose male circumcision should feel free to try to convince parents not to have it done on their children. But most Americans, will not accept government mandated meddling in what almost everyone considers personal family decisions. I'm confident though, that unlike the Happy Meal ordinance, this will certainly not pass. It simply offends too many people.

again, as the article says this is being proposed by:

One city resident

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/politics/Next-on-San-Franciscos-Hit-List-Circumcision-107316878.html?__source=Facebook

This is NOT going to pass.

be a choice not a mandate.

That is ludicrous.